Decolonise & Diversify the curriculum with Open Educational Resources
•Download as PPTX, PDF•
1 like•4,890 views
As part of our participation in Open Education Week 2019, @OpenEdEdinburgh ran a one-hour workshop to explore what it means to decolonise and diversify the curriculum with our EUSA VP of Education Diva Mukherji. The session also provided a look at how creating, using, and sharing open educational resources (OER) can be one avenue towards diversifying and opening up curriculum materials with OER advisor Stephanie (Charlie) Farley.
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (20)
Similar to Decolonise & Diversify the curriculum with Open Educational Resources
Similar to Decolonise & Diversify the curriculum with Open Educational Resources (20)
More from Stephanie (Charlie) Farley
More from Stephanie (Charlie) Farley (13)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Decolonise & Diversify the curriculum with Open Educational Resources
- 1. Decolonising and diversifying Educational content with Open Educational Resources Stephanie (Charlie) Farley Educational Design & Engagement University of Edinburgh
- 2. Open Educational Resources (OER) OER are online resources that have been openly licensed so that anyone can re-use, re-mix, and re-share to use to support learning.
- 3. OER Policy & University Mission To “make a significant, sustainable socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK, and the world”.
- 4. OER Support Service The University has a Learning & Teaching OER Policy (http://edin.ac/2lMXM9L) and supports the open licensing of learning and teaching materials by staff and students.
- 5. A Creative Commons (CC) licence is one of several open licenses that enable the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work.
- 6. Creative Commons licences CC BY Attribution Re-mix, re-use, re-share - provide attribution to the author CC BY-SA Attribution Share-Alike Re-mix, re-use, re-share - provide attribution to the author and re-share under the same licence.
- 7. Creative Commons licences CC BY-ND Attribution Non-Derivative Re-use, re-share - No changes to content, and provide attribution to the author CC BY-NC Attribution Non-Commercial Re-mix, re-use, re-share - provide attribution to the author and not use for profit.
- 8. OER diversifies the curriculum http://www.open.ed.ac.uk/lgbt-healthcare-101/
- 9. Diversity Reading List - Philosophy https://diversityreadinglist.org
- 10. Wikipedia – Including all voices Tomas Sanders, History graduate and Open Content Intern 2017. Tomas ran a Black History month editing event with the student History Society.
- 11. Wikipedia – Including all voices
- 12. Wikipedia – Divers-athon articles Clara Marguerite Christian (1895-1964), was born in Dominica and was the 1st black woman to study at the University of Edinburgh. Her university experience speaks to the “double jeopardy” of “navigating both race and gender within whiteness”, embodying “the simultaneous invisibility and hyper-visibility” of being a black woman in Edinburgh during the 1910s”. Jabulani Chen Pereira is a queer South African activist & visual artist. In 2012, Pereira founded Iranti (South African LGBT organisation), a non-governmental organisation focusing queer human rights issues primarily through visual media. Xheni Karaj is a LGBT rights activist and co-founder of the Aleanca LGBT organization. Xheni, together with Kristi Pinderi, were among the first activists to launch the LGBT rights movement in Albania. Translated from Albanian Wikipedia.
- 13. Wikipedia – Including all voices
- 15. Open Textbooks Open Textbooks are books that have been made accessible online free of cost and are often also openly licensed to allow free modifications, use, and sharing. Educators and students are provided with the opportunity to feedback, alter, and adapt the texts to purpose. http://ukopentextbooks.org/ CC BY 3.0, Centre for Research Collections, https://edin.ac/2IVljx7
- 18. Open Textbook websites: Open Textbook Library For textbooks on business and management; computer science and information systems; education; engineering; humanities and languages; journalism, media studies and communications; law; mathematics and statistics; health; sciences; and social sciences.
- 19. Open Textbook websites: BC Campus The University of British Columbia created 60 open textbooks by asking faculty to identify subject matter, revise existing open textbooks based peer reviews, or write new open textbooks. Textbooks on arts; business and management; health; sciences; and social sciences.
- 20. Directory of Open Access Journals, https://doaj.org/search#.W-1eN3r7RBw
- 27. Open.Ed: Openness, Equality and Inclusion, http://open.ed.ac.uk/openness-equality-and-inclusion/
- 28. Lorna M. Campbell Lorna.M.Campbell@ed.ac.uk @LornaMCampbell Stephanie (Charlie) Farley Stephanie.Farley@ed.ac.uk @SFarley_Charlie Open.Ed OER Service Learning, Teaching & Web Information Services http://open.ed.ac.uk/ @OpenEdEdinburgh
- 29. Thank you! CC BY Charlie Farley, University of Edinburgh, unless otherwise indicated. Stephanie (Charlie) Farley stephanie.farley@ed.ac.uk @SFarley_Charlie CC BY-NC-SA 2.0, Centre for Research Collections, https://flic.kr/p/fcwCzM
Editor's Notes
- This is where Open Education Resources (OERs) come in. OER is an umbrella term used to describe online resources that have been openly licensed so that anyone can re-use, re-mix, and re-share to use to support learning.
- - The University of Edinburgh sees the use and open sharing of its own teaching and learning materials as part of the University’s mission to “make a significant, sustainable socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK, and the world”. - It’s important we contribute towards the global commons of education and cultural resources. - We have an OER Policy that sets out how the University encourages and supports staff to openly licence and share teaching and learning materials. This can be found on the resources attached to this presentation, or on the website www.open.ed.ac.uk
- You may already be familiar with Creative Commons. They're a non-profit global group, and one of several, that create open licenses anyone can apply to their work in order to enable the free distribution of otherwise copyrighted work.
- A CC BY licence allows anyone to re-mix, re-use & re-share, so long as attribution, or credit, is given to the author. This means you can take a picture, change it, put it on a mug, and sell it if you wish. A CC BY-SA, or ShareAlike licence, allows anyone to re-mix, re-use, & re-share, so long as credit is provided to the author and any new work is shared under the same licence. So we could take that picture, cut it up, put it in a collage, so long as the collage was also licensed CC BY-SA so that someone else could re-use and re-share the work. We call this copy-left.
- A CC BY-ND, or Non-Derivative licence, means anyone can re-use & re-share the work, so long as credit is provided to the author, and no changes are made to the material. So that picture cannot be altered, we would need to use all of it, not just a section, but it can be incorporated into another work in its entirety. A CC BY-NC, or nonCommercial licence is trickier. The work can be re-used and remixed, and re-shared, but not used for a commercial purpose, and what counts as a commercial purpose can be hard to define. (click for notes 2)
- A number of studies have shown that LGBT Health is not well-covered in Medical curricula in either the UK or the US, however knowledge of LGBT health and of the sensitivities needed to treat LGBT patients are valuable skills for qualifying doctors. Using resources from the commons, this project addressed the lack of teaching on LGBT health within the curriculum. The remixed and repurposed resources were contributed back to the commons as CC BY licensed OER. New open resources including digital stories recorded from patient interviews and resources for Secondary School children of all ages were also created and released as CC BY OER. Original resources created by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
- Women and non-white persons are significantly underrepresented in modern philosophy. Only 10% of the 267 most cited contemporary authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are women, and only 3% are of a non-white racial background (Schwitzgebel 2014). Research suggests that ‘a major contribution to the under-representation of women in professional philosophy occurs at the undergraduate level’. One of them is the stereotype of a philosopher as a white man, grounded by the fact that the majority of the texts typically read in class are written by white men, and that the philosophical ideals of rationality and objectivity are associated with maleness and whiteness (Haslanger 2008). One way to help combat this stereotype and its negative consequences is to decolonise the reading lists used to support teaching, by including philosophical writings by authors from under-represented groups. Including those texts in your teaching can give your students a chance to read good philosophy written by scholars coming from different backgrounds, making it less likely that they will perceive philosophy as something that can done well only by white men. As a result, the risk of them experiencing stereotype threat or developing an implicit bias will be reduced.
- Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education
- Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education
- Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education
- Open education can encompass many different things. These are just some of the aspects of open education